Month: January 2014

http://www.fastcompany.com/3024628/this-headset-prevents-plane-crashes-and-5-other-ideas-for-surprising-wearable-tech The fabric of this hoodie, built by a team from hackcouture.io, is packed with sensors that can help wearers keep tabs on how they move throughout the day. Unlike typical fitness trackers, however, it can also detect a fall, high-velocity impact, or heart-rate anomaly and alert a rescue network. The hoodie helps rescuers locate … [Read more…]

This past weekend, four members of Team HackCouture, Erin Weathers, Daniel Herrera, Adam Smith-Kipnis and Vaibhav Vaidya, flew to Las Vegas to compete against 800 other hackers in the AT&T Developers Summit Hackathon. When we arrived, we joined forces with Bharat Chatla, an Engineer at Zappo’s and Sankalp Shere, an Engineer with Bing who had … [Read more…]